Crysis 2

Crysis 2

Developers   Crytek

Publishers   Electronic Arts

Engines   CryEngine 3

Release dates Windows March 22, 2011

Crysis

Crysis	2007
Crysis: Warhead	2008
Crysis 2	2011
Crysis 3	2013

Key points

PC version features high resolution textures, tessellation, high quality shadows and more PC-specific features.

Great for benchmarking graphics cards

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General information

Crysis Website

MyCrysis Forums

Crysis Wiki - A wiki for everything Crysis related

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Amazon.com		Maximum Edition
Origin		Maximum Edition
Steam		Maximum Edition / Use CD key given on Steam to unlock on Origin.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos by editing a config file Crysis 2 startup videos are unskippable, but can be turned off by editing a config file. Locate system.cfg or create autoexec.cfg in the installation folder. Either file will work. Add g_skipintro = 1 line to either of the files.

Patches

Patch 1.9 prepares Crysis 2 for DX11 features and high-resolution textures. Each need to be downloaded and installed separately from the 1.9 patch.

DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade

Features

With this package the following DX11 exclusive features will be activated

• Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
• Realistic Shadows with Variable Penumbra
• High Quality HDR Motion Blur
• Sprite Based Bokeh Depth of Field
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping
• Particles Motion Blur, Shadows and Art Updates
• Water Rendering improvements and using Tessellation + Displacement Mapping

Requirements

• DX11 compatible graphics card with 768 MB Video Memory
• 545 MB HD space

Download

The DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade can be downloaded here.

High-Resolution Textures

Features

The High-Resolution Texture Pack doubles the fidelity of many of the games art assets.

Requirements

• 64-Bit Operating System
• DX9 compatible graphics card with 768 MB Video Memory

Download

The High-Res Texture Pack can be downloaded here.

NTCore 4GB Patch

Crysis 2 is very memory intensive. This app improves performance for Crysis 2 on 64-bit Windows systems with more than 2GB RAM by allowing it to access up to 4GB RAM.

Modifications

BlackFire's Mod 2 and MaLDo HD Textures

For those who truly want to push Crysis 2's graphical fidelity to its limits, BlackFire's Mod 2 and MaLDo HD serves their needs. A step by step list of instructions is available at this forum post over at Crydev.net [1].

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.cfg

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Crysis2\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

In-game general graphics settings.

In-game advanced graphics settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Force in the graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Oculus Rift		See Crysis 2 running on Oculus Rift with Vireio.
High frame rate

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV Create an autoexec.cfg file in the installation folder. Add these lines to it: cl_FOV = 70 r_DrawNearFOV = 70 pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFOV = 70 Notes cl_FOV controls the main game world FOV; r_DrawNearFOV controls the FOV for nearby objects, primarily your arms and weapon; and pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFOV controls the FOV used only when you sprint. Crysis 2 is using vertical field of view with 55 as default. Use FOV Calculator to calculate your desired horizontal field of view.

Input settings

In-game key map settings.

In-game general gamepad settings.

In-game gamepad layout settings for the player.

In-game gamepad layout settings for vehicles.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput controllers only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Can only switch between pre-set layouts.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.1 output
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Traditional Chinese
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		16	Online server browser stopped working on May 31, 2014.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting		Use the Crysis 2 Community Dedicated Server Package.
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP (outbound)	80, 2891, 2990, 6667, 29900, 64100
UDP (outbound)	27900-27901, 64100

Issues unresolved

Statistic screen

The statistic-screen in the menu displays that 13 weapon-attachments are findable in single-player but in fact there are only 12. Therefore it is not possible to achieve "100%".

Issues fixed

Extreme lag while using Nvidia video card

Extreme lag while using Nvidia video card When playing Crysis 2 on a fast Nvidia card (GTX 560 Ti and possibly on faster cards as well), there can be an extreme and unexpected lag regardless of single player or multiplayer campaign. This is very noticeable while navigating the menu, something that should be instantaneous and direct. If you experience this lag, try switching to windowed mode (Alt+↵ Enter). If this lag now disappears and gameplay is suddenly fast again, the solution is this: Open the Nvidia Control Panel program Go to Display > Adjust desktop size and position If necessary, for step 1, select your main display At step 2, view the Scaling tab Select No scaling Select Perform scaling on: Display Make sure your display is capable of scaling the game resolution to its native resolution, if you like to game at weird resolutions. GPU scaling is very useful but under Crysis 2, it introduces an extreme form of lag. Now, play Crysis 2 and see if you notice the difference.

Crash to Desktop at Startup

Crash to Desktop at Startup the game will freeze up and crash to the desktop without any errors Disable 'Lucid Vitru MVP Pro 2.0' This fix probably works with previous versions of Lucid's software.

External TV locked at 24 Hz

External TV locked at 24hz If you use an external TV as a monitor to player Crysis 2 you may encounter a bug where the game always uses a 24Hz mode on the TV, resulting in a laggy frame rate. Sadly there is no official fix for this issue. One way to play the game in fullscreen is to force borderless fullscreen windowed mode. Alternatively you can create a custom resolution with a few less horizontal pixels which should force the display into 60Hz mode. For example, if you are running at 1920x1080 using an Nvidia card: Open Nvidia Control Panel Go to Display > Change Resolution Click Customize Click Create Custom Resolution Change Horizontal pixels to 1916 Leave Vertical lines at 1080 Click Test and apply your settings if successful In Crysis 2, select your new resolution (1916x1080) and apply Your display should switch to 1920x1080@60Hz.

Forcing refresh rate via DirectX registry entries. Open the Registry Editor (open the Start screen/Start menu, type regedit and press ↵ Enter). Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectDraw Create DWORD entry "ForceRefreshRate" and change its DECIMAL value to the refresh rate of your monitor. 64-bit users will need to do this at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DirectDraw as well. This will force DirectX games to run in your monitor's refresh rate.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	7
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU	2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	9 GB
Video card (GPU)	GeForce 8800 GS Radeon HD 3800 series	GeForce GTX 280 Radeon HD 4870